And Soliday says the governor should be given authority to initiate tolling.

“And through that we should deliver a safe and efficient, well-maintained infrastructure for our kids and our grandchildren with minimum debt being handed to them,” Soliday says.

But House Minority Leader Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City) says raising the average Hoosier’s taxes while the state continues cutting taxes on businesses isn’t a good plan.

“I think there’s better, less intrusive, more conservative ways to get the same amount of infrastructure investment,” Pelath says.

Rep. Dan Forestal (D-Indianapolis) says the bill has a much harsher impact on low-income Hoosiers.

“I cannot imagine a way that the bill is fair … or how we are possibly going to explain to our constituents that it’s fair that large corporations and the super-wealthy get to keep having their taxes cut by statute and we’re going to raise their taxes at the pump, at the BMV, on electric vehicles … and oh by the way, we’re going to give the governor the ability to toll any road he wants – existing, future – with no oversight at all,” Forestal says.

Though seven Republicans joined Democrats in voting no, the measure now heads to the Senate.